[3] Medina-Mora Icaza is an expert in mental health, addiction, and is a faculty member of UNAM’s medical and psychology departments.
She was the director of the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz and worked with the Secretary of Health from 2008-2018.
[5] Medina-Mora Icaza also mentions how a good number of COVID-19 survivivors experience outcomes ranging from delusions, psychosis, and even serious neurological disorders.
Other common lingering ailments due to COVID-19 include headaches, altered consciousness, convulsions, and the absence of taste and smell.
She has found that the prevalence of anxiety disorders and antisocial behaviors is greatest among youth between 12 and 17 years of age, which also happens to be the same demographic that is second in the consumption of drugs.